 We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky: The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring...  Letts's illustrated household magazine - Page 1101883Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 414 pages
...treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice. We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Rootn to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Only, 0 Lord, in... | |
 | John Keble - 1842 - 332 pages
...would our hearts with wisdom talk Along life's dullest, dreariest walk! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more; content... | |
 | 1843
...mixed character whicl constitutes the real difficulty of his life. " We need not bid, for cloister' d cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For mortal men beneath the sky : The trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask... | |
 | Enthusiast - 1843 - 228 pages
... . ENTHUSIAST; anU We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell ; Nor strive...high For sinful man beneath the sky ; The trivial sound, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask — Room to deny ourselves ; a road To bring-... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...all around us rise ! How would our hearts with wisdom talk, Along Life's dullest, dreariest walk ! We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Eoom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Seek we no more ;... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...late years much commendation of religion in common life. As truly as sweetly has it been sung — " We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask ; Boom to deny ourselves ; a road To bring ua, daily, nearer God." "Religion consists,... | |
 | Thomas Page - Christianity - 1845 - 82 pages
...prayerful reliance upon the divine blessing, it is designed to answer. ' Wo need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell; Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask : Koom to deny ourselves— a road To bring us daUy nearer God." CHRISTIAN YEAB. jONE... | |
 | George Lewis (of Ormiston.) - Canada - 1845 - 448 pages
...the Puseyites. Would that the " Christian year" had always so sung! We need not bid, for cloister'd cell, Our neighbour and our work farewell, Nor strive...trivial round, the common task, Would furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God. Oh could we learn that... | |
 | Edward Vansittart Neale - Fasts and feasts - 1845 - 496 pages
...development of Christian principles— to whom it has appeared, in the language of a modern poet, that We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...too high, For sinful man beneath the sky ; ' — the same feeling has manifested itself in another form. We find amongst them a tendency to protest against... | |
 | Edward Vansittart Neale - 1845 - 484 pages
...development of Christian principles—to whom it has appeared, in the language of a modern poet, that We need not bid, for cloistered cell, Our neighbour...wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky;1 — the same feeling has manifested itself in another form. We find amongst them a tendency to... | |
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